champion godfather

Chapter 649

With a draw against Real Madrid in the away game, the Forest team already had an advantage in the duel between the two sides for the top four. However, this advantage is not guaranteed. Tang En dare not say that his team will definitely enter the semi-finals.The team is fighting on two fronts, he must be careful.This season is not like last season. The policy of "giving up the league and ensuring the Champions League" was determined early on. The team can concentrate on preparing for the battle on one front.Now, Twain's team needs to work hard in both the league and the Champions Cup, close the point gap with Manchester United in the league, and strive to reach the final for the third time in a row in the Champions Cup.

Back in Nottingham, Tang En implemented a rotation system against the underdog Birmingham in the league.

Playing with a half-substitute half-main lineup, the Forest team easily defeated Birmingham 2-0 at home. George Wood did not play in this game, and Sidwell performed well as a substitute.

Tang En obviously also noticed the players' eagerness to get more opportunities to play. If conditions permit, he will let everyone play games.

Bendtner started as a substitute for Ruud van Nistelrooy and scored two goals. After the game, he was selected as the best player of the game and got the champagne.He seemed very happy when he was interviewed by reporters.When Tang En brought him from Denmark to England, he said that he was the future of the team, the core player and the main striker of the Forest team in the future.However... with Viduka and Anelka in the front and Ruud van Nistelrooy in the back, Bendtner's position has always been awkward.What he can do now is to seize these uncommon opportunities to express himself as much as possible and strive for more goals.

He has been outstanding this season, scoring [-] goals off the bench - eight in the league and three in various cup competitions.

In the Danish national team, he also secured the position of the main striker.

In Twain's mind, he really trained Bendtner as Forest's main center for the future.Ruud van Nistelrooy is always getting old, his physical condition is declining, his competitive state is declining, frequent injuries... these are normal and predictable situations.At that time, Bendtner will just grow up to take over.With the guarantee of a strong center forward, the rest of the strikers are easy to find. Eastwood, Arshavin, and then go to the transfer market to find one.In this way, Nottingham Forest's striker will basically not have to worry too much in the next ten years.

After buying Bendtner back then, the fate of the young Danish boy had already been changed. However, in order to avoid the tragedy caused by rushing for quick success, Dunn still planned to let Bendtner grow up slowly according to the experience he knew well. He hoped that in the past few years, Bendtner could learn slowly, grow gradually, and eventually become the leading striker of Nottingham Forest.

This is his plan, step by step. Tang En feels that he has considered it very well and has taken every aspect into account.There should be nothing missing...

So seeing that Bendtner won the best of the game, he also praised the Danish kid in the locker room.While praising, Twain seemed to be able to see that Bendtner would become the top scorer in the Premier League in the future, while Nottingham Forest would dominate Europe in its glory days...

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As a result, the Forest team is still ranked second, but there is only one gap between Manchester United and six points behind Arsenal. As long as no big mistakes are made, this No.2 will basically not be able to run. .

Twain's goal this season is certainly not second in the league.He has been ranked second for two consecutive seasons, and some media have called him "the second in a thousand years". This is unfair to him, because he is a coach who has won the Champions League and the League Cup, but the media The word "fairness" does not exist in our dictionary. As long as there is a gimmick, it must be done.

Even if the media doesn't give Tang En such an ugly nickname, Tang En doesn't want to be second in the league anymore. His goal this season is the league championship.The second place in the league is not a reason to make him happy. What makes him happy is that Manchester United made a mistake. The two teams are now only one point away. More importantly, the Forest team has not yet played against Manchester United in the second half of the league.

As long as they don't make any more mistakes, they still have a chance to fight Manchester United to the death - according to the schedule, in the last round of this season's league, Nottingham Forest will challenge Manchester United away.At that time, as long as the points difference between the two sides is still one point, it will be the moment when the league champion is announced.

It is a good thing for the Premier League and the fans that the competition is so fierce.

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After three rounds of No.30 in the league, Nottingham Forest ranked second with 76 points.Immediately afterwards they will face powerful opponents Real Madrid at home.

This is not the first time that Real Madrid has visited the City Stadium as a guest. Although it is the first time they have met in the knockout stage, but in the season that Twain participated in the Champions Cup for the first time, the first opponent in the group stage was Real Madrid, which was also the city. The stadium returned to the Champions League after many years.

There are many Spanish media who came to England with Real Madrid, and they are still very concerned about this game.Because Real Madrid has stopped in the top sixteen of the Champions League for three consecutive seasons, and reached the top eight this season, people expect that they can win the tenth Champions League trophy in club history in one go.If it does come true, Real Madrid's achievement is a well-deserved first among football clubs.

In the face of such strong expectations, there is no reason to stop at the quarterfinals.

Although the home court was tied 1:1 by Nottingham Forest, the media and fans are still more optimistic about Real Madrid. After all, the Forest team has only one away goal, and the total score of the two sides is a tie.They believe that for Real Madrid, let alone conceding a few goals, it is impossible not to let them score.As long as there is a goal, it is an away goal. One will offset Nottingham Forest's away goal, and any more goals will be Real Madrid's net profit advantage.

Even if the two sides draw 3:3 at the city stadium in the end, Real Madrid will advance.

From the above analysis, the Real Madrid people come to the optimistic result that they must advance.

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Before the game started, before the entire Real Madrid team left for Nottingham, Tony Twain started the fight.

In an interview with the British "Guardian", he talked about the first round of the match between the two sides.He first admitted that his tactics were to deal with Guti, and then he praised Guti as the core of Real Madrid.These seem to be very normal, and it is just a very ordinary interview.

But then, Tang En changed the topic——

"...Actually, I think Guti should be happy about this (referring to being violated by everyone in turn, and limping after the game), because it shows one thing, he has gained the attention of the enemy. Think about it A few years ago, he was on the bench..." Tang En laughed out loud and didn't continue.

This passage in the interview was marked in bold by the newspaper editor, and the meaning is self-explanatory.

Sure enough, after the Spanish media reprinted this interview, it caused a lot of repercussions.

I won't say what the reaction of Real Madrid fans in Spain is.On the website of the Guardian alone, the comments after this interview almost overwhelmingly scolded Tony Twain, some in English, some in Spanish, and even some in Japanese and Chinese...

Apart from Real Madrid supporters, more people believed that Tony Twain lacked enough respect for his opponents.

"...It's hard for me to believe that such words were spoken by a famous head coach..." A famous commentator from the Spanish media "Aspen" commented on Tony Twain's words.

"...We are a country of gentlemen, and sportsmanship is emphasized here. I think Tony Twain's remarks seriously violated this kind of thing that makes us proud..." Even British government officials felt that Twain's words It made them lose their face, and Minister of Sports Tessa Jowell criticized Tang En very directly.After all, the relationship between Real Madrid Club and the Spanish royal family is very good. They represent Spain's sports image abroad. If this image is slandered by a Premier League coach...

"Tony Twain's brain is cramping again." The headline of "The Sun" is very eye-catching. They even made a special project to find out all the incredible remarks that Twain has said since he took office, saying It is "Tony Twain's Crazy Words".

The Spanish media was full of crusades, and the English media almost stood on the opposite side of Tang En, slamming him for never speaking through his brain, and tactfully asked Tang En to face this obviously insulting opponent. Explanation.

So Tang En came out and explained, in his own column——

"...I was amazed at the reaction that this statement was able to elicit. I just commented on my opponent, didn't use an insulting word, it was completely true, and in some people's eyes it became disrespectful Opponents. Ask Guti yourself, did he only play as a substitute in a great team like Real Madrid a few years ago? I didn’t say he was not good enough, but the main positions belonged to Beckham, Zidane, Filipino Compared with a greater player like Ge, Guti is really not good. Am I wrong? I really don't understand that it is a very interesting job for a group of people to use a magnifying glass to find faults in my words all day long? "

How is this like an explanation?In other words, although this meant to explain, coupled with Tang En's unpleasant tone, no matter how you look at it, it will add fuel to the fire.

"Sportsmanship? May I ask that when my goalkeeper Paul Gerrard was hit by Reading player Hunter and retired immediately after a concussion, why didn't the respected Sports Minister Ms. Tessa Jowell come out and make a statement about the 'sports Mental' high talk? She should focus on the BJ Olympics now and get ready for the London Olympics instead of telling me what to say."

"If you just express your opinions on the opponent's players, you will be attacked like this. Then let's stop talking, okay? Everyone shut up, and the world will be clean now."

"If the media really can't find anything good to report, I suggest that you take out all the pages to publish public service advertisements, and just promote sportsmanship?"

It's an explanation, but it's actually Tang En's counterattack, right?
I don't know if Tony Twain can be regarded as the No.1 in the history of English football for criticizing the British Minister of Culture, Information and Sports so mercilessly... Anyway, he is completely red, red and purple, purple hair Hei...he has many enemies.

Although Jowell is the Minister of Sports, she has no right to ask Tang En to do anything. The only thing she did wrong is that she should not get involved in this matter. Her remarks made Tang En a hornet's nest. .After Tang En fought back, she didn't say anything more.For a high-ranking government official to remain silent in a war of words with an ordinary citizen is the most appropriate thing to do, and she should have done so...

The Spanish media is not relentless, but the voice of the English media is much weaker, because the game is approaching, and there is no point in hyping this kind of thing. In the end, it still has to be attributed to the game itself.

In fact, those media hypes are not for "the dignity of Spanish football", "for sportsmanship", "respect for opponents"... They are just because they can attract attention and have greater benefits.

The media is the profession that is best at "building a torii after being a bitch" in the world. Tang En knew what they were up to, so he didn't give them a good face.

His words had the greatest impact on the Real Madrid team, and Guti, who was "named", was furious.When he arrived in Nottingham, he was angry when he was interviewed: "I don't like people who criticize others maliciously, and I'm not interested in answering such boring topics." He rudely rejected the reporter's remarks about Tang En question, but even if he doesn't answer this question, will the media have nothing to say?

"Guti expressed strong dissatisfaction with Tony Twain's remarks!"

"Guti thinks Tony Twain is not worth mentioning!"

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And so on.

Anyway, fueled by the media, the two sides officially joined forces.

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In fact, Tang En was somewhat incomprehensible to Tang En's sudden mention of Guti. He felt that Tang En didn't need to get himself into trouble.

Tang En just shrugged and said that the boring sports minister was an unexpected "accident".In the past, it was normal for everyone in the football circle to spit at each other.Mourinho once called Wenger a "peeping tom", and Ferguson also said that he hoped that with two bullets, he would kill Wenger and Victoria... Why don't British government officials come out to make irresponsible remarks these days?
So it was indeed something Tang En didn't expect that Jowell would come out, which also made him very angry.There is a kind of domineering "our insiders talk about things, why do laymen get in the way", and it doesn't matter that this is a government official and a woman, and she makes ridicule.

Leaving aside the impulsive Minister of Sports, Twain's plan actually went very smoothly. He paid the price of being notorious and hated by others, and successfully angered Real Madrid's midfielder - Guti .

Maybe he is not as famous as Raul and others, but in Tang En's eyes, he is the real core of Real Madrid's current team. With him, Real Madrid's offense will have direction and strategy. Without him, Real Madrid's offense will be messy.

If Guti is irritated, he will lose the calmness necessary for an organizer. What will Real Madrid's offense be like...you can guess with your knees.

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Everything went as Tang En expected. In the second round of the match between the two sides, Guti's performance was completely different from the first round.Anyone can see the impetuous emotions, and Real Madrid's offense also became disorganized for the first time.At the beginning, he relied on Guti, but as a result, Guti made frequent mistakes, conceded the ball frequently, and passed the football directly to the Forest team players several times.

Amidst the overwhelming boos at the City Stadium, his temper became worse and worse, and he applied for a yellow card before the end of the first half-an unnecessary fierce tackle brought down George Wood.He got a yellow card, and the players of the Forest team insisted on asking the referee to give him a red card and sent him off directly.

The game was full of gunpowder, and verbal conflicts between players on both sides were common.

In the No.70 minute of the game, Schuster couldn't take it anymore and replaced Guti with Gago.In these seven 10 minutes, Guti passed the ball 76 times, but only succeeded [-] times. Frequent mistakes did not help the team's offense at all.Instead, the whole team followed him and became impatient.

There were fewer conflicts, but Real Madrid's offense completely lost its direction.They rely more on the personal skills of the stars to fight alone, and occasionally they want to cooperate and will be overwhelmed by the overall defense of the Forest team.The majestic Real Madrid is really helpless in the face of Nottingham Forest's defensive formation at home.

In the end, the two sides drew 0:0.

This result made the fans of Real Madrid ashamed, and the players of Real Madrid looked at a loss - they were eliminated by Nottingham Forest with the disadvantage of less away goals...

"Nottingham Forest broke into the semi-finals again! For the third consecutive year! This is really amazing, this is really amazing..." The commentator repeated, and some didn't know what to say.

This game was really ugly, with no highlights at all. If neutral fans saw such a game, they would have turned off the TV or changed the channel.This kind of game made the commentator himself really not interested in talking about it.However, breaking into the semi-finals of the Champions League for three consecutive years is indeed a remarkable achievement. In today's football, very few teams have achieved this... No, it can even be said that "almost none".

The ugly and disgusting game, and the amazing and great results, this pair of contradictions was wonderfully unified in Tony Twain's team.For the first time, the narrator felt that his vocabulary was lacking, and he could not express this feeling properly.

Had to...

"Good luck to Tony Twain and his team."

(End of this chapter)